"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

An Alabama woman faces murder charges in the alleged shooting of her son’s boyfriend. Anita T. Hill, 51, has reportedly bonded out of the Tuscaloosa County Jail after being charged with the murder of 36-year-old Jamie R. Johnson, according to local news outlet WBRC. Investigators say Hill’s son, 30, and Johnson were involved in a long-term relationship for about four years, and the three had agreed to meet at Love’s Truck Stop near McCalla, Ala., where Johnson was found suffering from a gunshot wound, CBS 42 reported. He later died as a result of his injuries. The case is still under investigation, but Sgt. Dale Phillips nonetheless told reporters that officials “do not see this in any nature being a hate crime.” “This relationship has caused tension between the suspect who is the mother of the male witness and her son,” he said. As Tuscaloosa News reported, Phillips went on to suggest that the possibly volatile nature of the relationship between Johnson and Hill’s son may have been a motivating factor: “The mother had concerns about her son’s safety because over the past several years their relationship has been, in her mind, physically and emotionally abusive.”

The current press operates on the assumption that if any crime befalls a homosexual person, it must be a hate crime and the victim must be some sympathetic special snowflake.

Similar crimes have occurred, but remarkably, some of the attention fizzled out when the victim turned out not to be a Rosa Parks candidate.

There was a case in Alabama when a man severely beat his sister’s lesbian partner at the family Thanksgiving dinner. Of course the press started to ring the “hate crime” bell. Then the family said that the man attacked the lesbian partner because she had been giving his sister drugs and pimping her out. She didn’t exactly fulfill the role of the lesbian heroine who is supposed to “save” other women from heterosexual depredations.